Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality
Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million soldiers from Mainland China who retreated to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject...
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| author | Chang, Simon Kan, Kamhon Zhang, Xiaobo |
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| description | Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million soldiers from Mainland China who retreated to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject to a marriage ban. When the ban was lifted in 1959, the great influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50–64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect, albeit of a much smaller magnitude, is also found among women. We show that this is likely driven by the widowhood effect—women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1436322025-02-24T06:45:43Z Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality Chang, Simon Kan, Kamhon Zhang, Xiaobo gender death marriage experimentation mortality marital status sex ratio Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million soldiers from Mainland China who retreated to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject to a marriage ban. When the ban was lifted in 1959, the great influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50–64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect, albeit of a much smaller magnitude, is also found among women. We show that this is likely driven by the widowhood effect—women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths. 2020-05-01 2024-05-22T12:15:40Z 2024-05-22T12:15:40Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143632 en https://doi.org/10.1086/660887 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.12.001 Open Access Institute of Labor Economics Chang, Simon; Kan, Kamhon; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2020. Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality. IZA Discussion Papers No. 13162. https://www.iza.org/pub/YEJFu8xK |
| spellingShingle | gender death marriage experimentation mortality marital status sex ratio Chang, Simon Kan, Kamhon Zhang, Xiaobo Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality |
| title | Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality |
| title_full | Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality |
| title_fullStr | Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality |
| title_short | Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality |
| title_sort | too many men too short lives the effect of the male biased sex ratio on mortality |
| topic | gender death marriage experimentation mortality marital status sex ratio |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143632 |
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